“Let’s start off with a question. All of you can find yourself insisting quite frequently and quite vigorously that you are right about something. Do you know what I’m talking about? Yes, you do.
How many times a day would you say something comes up with your spouse or friend or down at work in which you have to insist that your position is the right one and their position is the wrong one, right? What is this fantastic insistence that we have that we are right when another part of you overwhelmingly screams out that you are wrong.
This may have been the first time in your life, right now, when you realize what you are doing and the harmful consequences of that. What you are doing is taking a position on a hill and saying this position, this belief that I have, this way I live, this way I talk, this way I behave generally, this is the right way. No one has the right to challenge it, to question it, to correct me. Now come on, please see it deeper; please don’t think I’m using words alone.
You’re watching and you’re listening to this talk right now and I would assume you are watching and listening to it because there’s something wrong with your life. I don’t want to assume it, I know it and you know it. Now let’s go back over it once more so you don’t try to run away from the first fact that you must face.
Notice how easily you get upset when your ways are challenged, when someone tries to correct you, someone tells you you are wrong about
something, that you behaved foolishly.”
– Vernon Howard, Wake Up to a New Life
Svaha 